"I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure."

-- Tanith Lee

#War Quotes #Writing Quotes #Long Quotes

“Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.”

Source : "A general talks storm lessons since Katrina". Interview with Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2011.
“I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!”
“Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life”
“If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.”
“Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.”
“The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.”
“It appears to me that, even within the recollection of living men, the Christian faith has come to be less and less regarded as a commanding and mighty power from heaven, a voice of authority, a law of holy life, but more and more as an easy going guide to future enjoyment, to a universal happiness and an indiscriminate salvation.”

Source : Frederic Dan Huntington (1877). “Christ in the Christian Year and in the Life of Man: Sermons for Laymen's Reading (Advent to Trinity)”
“When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.”

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